SMITH COLLEGE

THE PHOEBE AND JOHN D. LEWIS

GLOBAL STUDIES CENTER

Annual Report

2014 — 2015

Photo by Mariana Toledo’16, Cuba

Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................. 2

Academic Initiatives .....................................................................................4 Global Engagement Seminars......................................................................................... 4 Global Impressions .......................................................................................................... 7 Global Outreach Course Enhancement Grants .............................................................. 8 Global Scholar in Residence: Alfred Babo ...................................................................... 9 Global STRIDE Fellows .................................................................................................. 9 Translation Studies Concentration ................................................................................ 10

Offices and Programs .................................................................................. 12 Office for International Study ........................................................................................ 12

Curricular initiatives ................................................................................................. 12 Leadership transitions .............................................................................................. 14 Committee on Study Abroad curricular decisions ................................................... 15 Study Abroad Destinations ....................................................................................... 17

International Students & Scholars Office ...................................................................... 18 Events ........................................................................................................................ 19 International Student Citizenship ............................................................................ 23

American Studies Diploma Program ............................................................................ 24 International Experience Opportunities ...................................................................... 26

International Experience Grants (IEGs) ................................................................. 26 Blumberg Traveling Fellowships ............................................................................. 26 Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars Fund ............................................................... 27

Visiting Scholars in Residence ...................................................................................... 28

Events and Initiatives ................................................................................. 29 Featured Events ............................................................................................................ 29

January 2015 Conference ........................................................................................ 29 Humanities Lab: Global Lecture Series ................................................................... 29

Signature Lewis Center Events ..................................................................................... 30 Global Salons ............................................................................................................ 30 Global Books ............................................................................................................. 32 What’s Happening Around the World (WHAW) ..................................................... 33 Leadership in Diplomacy Series .............................................................................. 34

Special Events ............................................................................................................... 34 Annual Student Support Programming ......................................................................... 35 Information Sessions .................................................................................................... 36

Office and Program Staffing: 2014-2015 ...................................................... 38 Program Staff ................................................................................................................ 38 Advisory Committees .................................................................................................... 38

Faculty Advisory Committee 2014-2015 ................................................................. 38 Student Advisory Committee 2014-2015 ................................................................. 39

Appendices ................................................................................................ 40 Appendix A: International Experience Grant Allocations ............................................ 40 Appendix B: Organizational Structure 2014-15 ............................................................ 41

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Introduction Dear friends and supporters of the Lewis Global Studies Center, We invite you to explore the diverse program offerings and office updates of the 2014-15 academic year. We welcomed Janie Vanpée (Comparative Literature, French Studies) as our new Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’69 Faculty Director of the Center. As one of the earliest advocates for an intercultural center at Smith, serving on various committee for over a decade supporting the concept of what would eventually emerge as the Global Studies Center, she brings a vision grounded in the history of Smith College. Many of the initiatives you will learn about in this report are a direct output of her imaginative and forward-thinking approach to a global education at Smith College. One of the key initiatives of the Lewis Center this year has been the delivery of an interdisciplinary and community-based Humanities Lab on the topic Involuntary Displacement, Immigration, Security and Refugees. This program was organized by Janie Vanpée and Alfred Babo, Global Scholar in Residence for 2014-15, in coordination with the Center for Community Collaboration and a steering committee of faculty engaged in the topic. The theme of immigration and displacement has served as an organizing focus for the year. The Lab resulted in a lecture series, special studies, and framed our annual January conference entitled Forced Displacement and the Challenges of Glocal (global/local) Citizenship. Numerous community groups from western Massachusetts joined with faculty and students in an educational workshop on immigration policies and the struggles of immigrant communities to find a foothold in their new locations. We are grateful to Betty Eveillard’s support of the Global Scholar in Residence funding for the ability to deliver such a timely and critical series of global programs. The Center launched two new Global Engagement Seminars in 2015: India in Transition: Contrast, Complexity, Creativity with Charles Staelin (Economics) and Nalini Bhushan (Philosophy), and The Gender Politics of Participatory Democracy and Development (Kenya) with Katwiwa Mule (Comparative Literature) and Lucy Mule (Education & Child Study). Both Seminars partnered with local organizations in the delivery of the seminar and support for the internship phase; they also demonstrated the creative potential of these global seminars to explore emergent topics from a unique perspective not typically found in study abroad programs. Over the next year we hope to support new formats and models for the Global Engagement Seminars in ways that offer greater flexibility to faculty with links to courses on campus or departmental initiatives. Our many signature programs of the Lewis Center continued to thrive over the past year. The Global Impressions journal of student and alumnae writing produced three new issues: II) Adapting, III) Up Close/ From Afar, and IV) Activism. The student editorial team has learned to work through the peer review process and

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produced excellent pieces that are evocative of the writers’ presence in the world. The Global STRIDE program continues to offer its unique model of a group-oriented introduction to cultural learning over a two year period. This year Nancy Saporta Sternbach served as the faculty mentor advising and leading a weekly seminar with the group. The Translation Studies Concentration has also met with extraordinary success, meeting a crucial need for students interested in both language study and professional opportunities that rely on the capacity to interpret and work across cultural boundaries. Among our offices that anchor the Lewis Center, the Office for International Study supported 260 students studying in 35 different countries. The International Students & Scholars office provided the immigration and cultural programming support for 389 international students from 73 countries, of which 96 were in the first year entering class. Smith’s Programs Abroad (JYA) are undergoing exciting transitions and innovative curricular development. A new science track in Paris is offering Smith students access to university lab placements and internships that would otherwise be very difficult to obtain; our joint BA/MA program with The Graduate Institute in Geneva Switzerland has been launched with the first cohort arriving in the fall of 2015; and discussion are underway to develop new science and single semester options in Florence, Italy. Amidst all this work, our Center is busy almost every day with multiple events: Global Salons, book discussions, information sessions, workshops and our regular open office hours for the resource center. As the College engages in a year of strategic planning in 2015, we look forward to a continued vision of integrating global issues and intercultural perspectives throughout the campus. Rebecca Hovey and Janie Vanpée, and the staff of the Lewis Global Studies Center

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Academic Initiatives

Global Engagement Seminars

These intensive, credit-bearing seminars are taught through a three week travel seminar off-campus during the summer, followed by a required internship or service learning experience. The seminar provides five academic credits and includes a follow up assignment for deeper experience and reflection. The Lewis Center offered two new Global Engagement Seminars during 2014-15: one to India and the other to Kenya. These two seminars are described below. Funding was made possible with support of the Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’69 Global Initiatives support and a gift from Marcia MacHarg ’70 Global Engagement Seminar Fund. GES 306: India in Transition: Contrast, Complexity, Creativity Faculty: Charles Staelin, Economics and Nalini Bhushan, Philosophy Enrollment: nine students Dates: June 26 – August 14, 2015 Description: India is a land of contrasts. Modern cities and industries based on the very latest technologies sit side by side with rural areas that have changed little over the past centuries. Urban cultures exude modernity and mobility while rural cultures hold to tradition and caste. Gender roles are in flux. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow. In this seminar we will examine how India and Indians deal with these contradictions, both philosophically and economically. Do Hindu and Buddhist notions of suffering provide a justification for these contrasts or a path for reconciling them? Can India adopt modernity while still maintaining its cultural and religious identity? Is social and economic inequality concomitant with development? In this seminar we will look critically at these questions through readings, lectures and direct experience. We will visit both urban and rural areas in the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, including Chennai, Puducherry, Auroville, Kodaikanal, Madurai, Periyar and Kochi, and talk with those who are themselves struggling with these questions and their solution.

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GES 305: The Gender Politics of Participatory Democracy and Development (Kenya) Faculty: Katwiwa Mule, Comparative Literature and Lucy Mule, Education & Child Study Enrollment: twelve students Dates: June 6 – July 31, 2015 Description: This course provides a critical assessment of how gender politics have emerged and developed in Kenya. We will examine how issues of nationalism and nation-building and the second and third waves of democratization and governance have impacted gender equity by addressing the following questions: How have women's movements in Kenya since independence contributed to, or inhibited, gender equity? How have gendered nationalist state-building ideologies created deep fissures and pressures for gender- sensitive development? In what ways have women engaged with institutions of governance in Kenya? How have women leaders, for example, attempted to reverse the pernicious effects of gender-blind social protection policies mandated by multilateral partners? Focusing on political participation, popular democracy, gender-based parliamentary representation, and state feminism, we will also seek to understand ways in which women have created new political spaces of empowerment, as well as the limits of such spaces. Reassessment of the Global Engagement Seminar format: Over the past five years the Lewis Center has successfully run six different Global Engagement Seminars, some of them two and even three times (see the list below), serving a total of 97 students. As part of the Global Strategies working group meeting during the 2014-15 year, several meetings were held to assess the Global Engagement Seminars in light of student, staff and faculty feedback. Overall, faculty acknowledged the value of interdisciplinary learning, one of the key goals of the seminars. The field seminar and internship structure provided opportunities for students from different disciplines to engage in experiential learning opportunities, utilizing local geography and culture in the course content. Most of the programs extended Smith programming to underserved study abroad regions beyond the traditional Smith Programs Abroad (JYA) in Paris, Florence, Hamburg, and Geneva. An important goal of the seminars was faculty development through a variety of opportunities for collaboration: interdisciplinary research and teaching, exploration of new geographical regions for scholarship, and collaborative work with students. At the same time, faculty acknowledged the challenging administrative work required to develop the program and manage logistics once on site. One consistent request heard from a variety of faculty – those who had run a seminar and those who had not – was a desire for a more flexible format. We discussed options of J-term seminars, embedded course trips as a type of seminar, and similar requests such as the long-term Geosciences and Education Coral Reef program in Belize.

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From an administrative perspective, the support of new program development on an annual basis is significant and shifted staff priorities away from other demanding needs of the office. As a long-term set of programs, additional support would be needed to maintain high quality student support and risk management. The lack of staff presence during the internship portion has been identified as an area of risk management that would need to be addressed for future programs of this type. In particular, oversight of the internship component was one area in which student feedback was most problematic. In several cases it was difficult to find relevant internships for students; in many cases students did not have the appropriate language skills that would have qualified them for higher level placements. The connection of the internship theme to the course content has also been inconsistent. Scheduling and costs also led to increasingly shorter internship stays. The reality of needing to find available placements in a given location, as opposed to the Praxis model of students identifying and pursuing independent internships, led to the decision at the end of 2015 to eliminate the Praxis funding from the Seminars. The Kenyan Global Engagement Seminar will run a second time in 2015-2016, in conjunction with a Lewis Center focus on African Women’s Leadership. During the 2015-16 academic year we will be developing proposals for a new format and structure of faculty-led programming that retains many of the objectives of the Seminars in new, more flexible formats.

Year Seminar Faculty Students

2011

GES 301 Jerusalem Justin Cammy Suleiman Mourad

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GES 302 Costa Rica at a

Crossroads: Globalization and

Sustainability

Gary Lehring Amy Rhodes

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2012

GES 301 Jerusalem Justin Cammy Donna Divine

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GES 302 Costa Rica at a

Crossroads: Globalization and

Sustainability

Gary Lehring Amy Rhodes

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GES 303 Greek History and

Archaeology in Geological Context John Brady Scott Bradbury

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2013

GES 301 Jerusalem Justin Cammy Ibtissam Bouachrine

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GES 304 Federico Garcia Lorca,

Hidden and Revealed Maria Estela Harretche Ellen W. Kaplan

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2014 GES 303 Greek History and

Archaeology in Geological Context John Brady Scott Bradbury

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2015

GES 306 India in Transition: Contrast, Complexity, Creativity

Nalini Bhushan Charles Staelin

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GES 305 The Gender Politics of Participatory Democracy and Development (Kenya)

Katwiwa Mule Lucy Mule

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Total Six seminars; 10 cohorts 14 faculty 97 students

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Global Impressions

Global Impressions, a journal by Smith students “in and for the world,” offers a public forum for Smith students and alumnae to showcase short, nonfiction reflective essays on their intercultural and interlinguistic encounters, experiences, misunderstandings and epiphanies abroad and at home. Supported by the Lewis Global Studies Center, the journal aims to foster critical thinking about what living in a culturally and linguistically diverse world means today. Global Impressions publishes two issues per year each focused on a specific theme, in addition to a special fall issue collaborating with participants of the Lewis Global Studies Center International Photo Contest. The themes and contributors of the 2014-15 issues are listed below. Fall 2014, Issue II: Adapting URL: http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/impressions/issue-ii-adapting/ Whenever life presents us with a challenge, we are forced to adapt and learn from that experience. Some of the most difficult challenges of adaptation occur during intercultural encounters. This issue of Global Impressions explores the idea of “adapting” in numerous situations, from the physical, to the interpersonal, to defining what does or does not make a culture “authentic.” We invite you to join us in exploring all sorts of adaptation. Spring 2015, Issue III: Up Close / From Afar URL: http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/impressions/issue-iii-up-close-from-afar/ A camera lens separates the photographer from the subject, but can also offer a closer look into a situation. Similarly, photographs allow for temporal distance by capturing a single instant that can be viewed and re-viewed, allowing for self-reflection as well as deeper understanding of the moment. Our current issue explores how the image has affected an understanding of another culture, whether in the act of taking the photograph or when returning to it later.

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Summer 2015, Issue IV: Activism URL: http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/impressions/issue-iv-activism/ Since its founding in 1871, Smith College has been defined by its commitment to social activism. No matter the time or place, Smithies have always been deeply engaged in the social issues of the world around them. In this issue, we aim to highlight this distinguished tradition in its increasingly global context. As our diverse submissions show, activism does not have to be limited to traditional protests or educational initiatives – it can be re-writing classic plays to highlight modern day problems, creating a website to try and define a controversial yet incredibly important concept, increasing public awareness through art and photography, or applying unique scientific research to the struggles of indigenous communities. There are no limits to imagining efforts that can help to make our world a better place.

Global Outreach Course Enhancement Grants The Lewis Global Studies Center invited faculty to submit proposals in 2014-15 to support enrichment of the college’s curricular offerings with global perspectives. Examples of previous work were cited as possible projects: video conferencing with counterparts in other cultures; equipment procurement to support global collaborations; international travel for curricular and/or program development; and course-related student international travel. Two awards were granted during the 2014-15 year:

Carolyn Shread, (French Studies, Translation Studies Concentration) received an award in order to present her paper, “Literary Knowing in Translation, or What does Haitian French literature know in English Translation?” at the International Colloquium on 20th & 21st Centuries French & Francophone Studies. The conference helped inform her preparation for two courses, CLT 150 The Art of Translation: Poetics, Politics, Practice and FRN 295 French Translation in Practice at Smith in Spring 2014.

Ibtissam Bouachrine, (Spanish & Portuguese, Middle East Studies) received funding to carry out research for a new course, “Jewish Women of Morocco,” to be offered in fall 2016. This course will examine the often-neglected experiences of Jewish women in Islamic Iberia and North Africa from the Middle Ages until today. Bouachrine conducted part of the research at Le Musée du Judaïsme Marocain in Casablanca, Morocco. As the only Jewish museum in the Arab world, MJM houses unique artifacts that help tell the story of 2,000 years of Jewish history in Morocco.

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Global Scholar in Residence: Alfred Babo One of the key initiatives of the Lewis Center this year has been the creation of the interdisciplinary and community-based Humanities Lab on the topic Involuntary Displacement, Immigration, Security and Refugees. This program, organized by Janie Vanpée and Alfred Babo in coordination with the Center for Community Collaboration and a steering committee of faculty engaged in the topic, has been the central theme of the year. The Lewis Center’s annual January conference also focused on the theme of immigration and was organized in collaboration with the Center for Community Collaboration. The Humanities Lab model has been an excellent vehicle for integrating a series of speakers, films, and discussions with a diverse set of courses across campus.

Global STRIDE Fellows Global Stride kicked off the 2014-15 year with four students who chose the program. They came from all over the U.S. but of very diverse backgrounds. One wanted to study Chinese, two Spanish, and one German. We began the year with two social events (a tea with last year’s Global Strides and dinner with the American Studies Diploma program students) and then launched into our syllabus. One project for the semester was an in-depth interview with an international student and then a written report about it. During the second semester, we prepared for the study abroad experience that is the centerpiece of the Global Stride program. At this time, one of the students decided that she preferred to be a regular (i.e. not Global) Stride and switched into that program. The three remaining students worked together on three projects: the choice and preparation for the summer study abroad program, an in-depth project about an international subject in the College archives, and a poster project describing their summer plans. Those plans were as follows: one student went on the Hampshire College program to China, one went to a safe house for victims of domestic violence in Costa Rica and worked with them on developing useful skills for the real world, and one went to Berlin to study German. This student, who is still in Berlin, also visited her American Studies Diploma student interviewee in Hamburg. When these experiences happen, they speak to the kind of exchange that is the heart of the program. These were extraordinary scholars who worked very hard to be the kind of students of whom Smith is so proud. Nancy Saporta Sternbach Global Stride Mentor

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Translation Studies Concentration

After two years of intensive planning, the Translation Studies Concentration was created in 2013 as a signature program of the Lewis Global Studies Center. In 2014-15, the Lewis Center celebrated its first complete cohort of Translation Studies Concentrators: five seniors and one junior. These students presented their translation projects and reflections about the process of translating at Collaborations. A total of 24 students were enrolled as Translation Studies Concentrators during the 2014-15 academic year. The Concentration added an additional nine students in 2015 and projects accepting approximately eight to ten additional students in 2016. The Translation Studies Concentration offers students studying a foreign language and culture an opportunity to refine their knowledge of the foreign language through translation. A student who wants to create a bridge between two majors, one of which is in a foreign language and culture and the other in a different discipline, will also find the concentration to be an important supplement to her curriculum. Student concentrators may not only be drawn to the literary side of translation; they may also seek to link their knowledge in the social sciences or sciences to their practice of a foreign language, translating governmental or legal documents, working with immigrant or refugee communities who need the help of a translator or interpreter, or translating scientific papers. The Concentration requires two practical experiences, one of which must be the equivalent of one-semester study abroad in the language from which the Concentrator plans to translate. The second practical experience, which entails 100 hours of work with foreign language, poses a greater challenge, in that the variety of languages students are working demands establishing a wide network of opportunities. We are working on establishing a list of organizations and individuals, locally and abroad, with which students have undertaken their practical experiences. Students have been pro-active in identifying opportunities. About one third of the students in the Concentration are international students from China, Korea and Italy. The languages they are studying and translating range from Chinese to English (5) English to Chinese (1); Portuguese to English (3); Spanish to

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Portuguese (1); Spanish, Korean, French, German to English (2 each); English to Italian (1); Arabic and Japanese to English (2). Seven students are interested in working in two languages in addition to English. Concentrators have majors in a range of fields, from language and culture majors in East Asian Languages, Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, Studies in Women and Gender, Economics, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, and Psychology. As the Concentration has gotten off the ground, one unexpected surprise was the interest from international students, especially Asian students who use their experience at Smith as their “study abroad” requirement. The interest in Asian language translation studies creates a challenging demand for East Asian Literature faculty to mentor their capstone projects. Other challenges of the Translation Studies Concentration are maintaining a wide enough array of curricular offerings. The Gateway course, CLT 150, has been staffed for the last three years by a Five College instructor who happens to be an expert in both the theory and practice of translation studies. The lecture course she puts together attracts from 50 to 60 students and serves the Comparative Literature Program as well as the entry into the Concentration. The lectures are public and attract Five College students and faculty as well as Smith students. It is uncertain whether the Comparative Literature Program, which staffed CLT 150 in the past when there was more flexible staffing, can reassume directing this Gateway course on a regular basis. The 2.5 FTEs in CLT have at least half their teaching commitments to other departments and programs, and other faculty on the CLT board are based in their home language and literature departments, where staff reductions have restricted their freedom to offer courses in the CLT program. The Concentration curriculum also relies on regular offerings in the Five College Consortium, especially from the UMass Comparative Literature Department, which has a translation studies graduate program. The Capstone course is an overload for the director. Having gone through one full cycle of the Concentration in which the program ironed out how best to administer the presentation as well as the forms for practical experiences and completion of the Concentration, next year we intend to fine-tune the e-portfolio process with its staged workshops. We plan to present the language self-assessment module at a Liberal Arts Luncheon in the hope of inspiring language and literature departments to adopt it for their majors. As the Concentrators find and complete their practical experiences, we intend to continue to build an inventory of possible internships abroad and in the area on the Concentration’s website. Finally, we will develop a plan for continuity of leadership and maintaining the curriculum. Top most on our agenda is finding a way to maintain the Gateway course (CLT 150) as a regular offering and to continue offering a modest honorarium to guest lecturers.

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Offices and Programs

Office for International Study Study Abroad participation during 2014-15 remained strong, with 260 students participating on Smith’s approved study abroad programs. Seventy-seven studied abroad for the full year, resulting in Smith College retaining its standing as one of the top four schools in the country sending students abroad for year-long study. This is just one indicator of Smith’s strong reputation for its support of global education. The Office for International Study engaged in several major initiatives during the 2014-15 academic year. These include important curricular changes in our Smith programs abroad (JYA), as well as transitions to new leadership structures on those programs; engagement in a Global Strategies Working Group that involved focus groups and surveys of students on their experiences with study abroad; and participation with campus colleagues in an initiative called Global Narratives, integrating reflective learning in pre-departure and returned student conversations. Of these initiatives, those involving curricular and leadership changes are reported here.

Curricular initiatives

Sciences à Paris: Our first cohort of six students admitted to the new Sciences à Paris track of the Smith in Paris program completed their year of study in 2015. Professor Chris Golé (Mathematics) served as the faculty director this year and formally launched the new program. This specialized track consists of the following components:

Supplemental tutoring support in the math and science fields in order for the students to successfully enroll in science courses at Paris VII (Diderot).

Internships and/or independent study opportunities in Paris: four of the six students obtained lab placements for their internships.

Two new seminars designed specifically for the sciences: o Sciences Comparées: pratiques et perceptions:

The principle of this seminar, which meets for 2h30 once a week, is to expose students to the career path and scientific work of scientists working in France, after introducing them to elementary concepts of epistemology and sociology of science. (Golé, 2015)

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o Pratique des Sciences à Paris:

This seminar is a practical and academic support for the students’ scientific practicum. In the seminar, we … discuss actual problems students have in handling interviews and administrative issues. …Students present (in French) scientific discoveries they read about in the news, and, as their internship or projects progress, they make presentations at several levels of completion of their projects. The final written product is a mock grant proposal (in French) based on their experience thus far. The students with independent projects write a paper. (Golé, 2015)

In addition to this work in Paris, Professor Golé worked closely with Rob

Dorit (Biology) in Northampton to advise and recruit students, and to form a campus advisory group which will support the track in terms of curricular assessment, internship developments, and prospects of hosting exchange students from Paris VII at Smith.

New BA/MA joint program with The Graduate Institute: In the spring of 2014, the prestigious Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland approached Smith College and a few other private liberal arts institutions with a proposal of establishing a joint 5-year BA-MA program. Under the leadership of Howard Gold, the Geneva program’s newly appointed faculty liaison, Smith became the first U.S. college to enter into this innovative new program with The Graduate Institute. The structure of the program allows for students to spend the fall semester of their senior year at the Graduate Institute, return to Smith for their final semester and to graduate, and then return to Geneva for a 5th year in which they earn the M.A. degree from The Graduate Institute. The agreement to establish the new program was signed in November 2014 by Smith College President Kathleen McCartney and Director of The Graduate Institute, Philippe Burrin. The first cohort of Smith students were selected in the spring of 2015 and will begin their studies in fall of 2015. They are:

Madeleine Duchene, GOV major; admitted to Master in International Affairs.

Yingxue Ge, EAS major; admitted to Master in International Relations/Political Science.

Hanae Miyake, ECO major; admitted to Master in Development Studies. Erinn Summers, GOV major; admitted to Master in Development Studies.

Establishing the joint degree demonstrates Smith’s capacity to be forward-looking in seeking international opportunities for our students and to do so in ways that reflects new directions in the field of global higher education.

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Science and possible single-semester options in Florence, Italy: For over two years faculty directors Thalia Pandiri, Giovanna Bellessia, and Susan Etheredge, supported by Associate Director Monica Ginanneschi, coordinated efforts in negotiating an agreement with the Science Faculty (actually its own School) within the University of Florence. This agreement, signed by Smith President Kathleen McCartney in the fall of 2014, opens up courses in the sciences at the University of Florence which previously required course-by-course approval. In addition, by signing the agreement, the university waived course fees across the university for all of Smith’s students. An additional step in promoting science opportunities on the Florence program was the proposal for a single semester science option submitted to the Committee on Study Abroad (CSA) in November of 2014. CSA deliberated throughout the year on the merits of this proposal. Area of concern included whether the single semester option be open to only science students and that Division III faculty would need to be involved in planning this new option. Most importantly, as of the last 2014-15 meeting in April, no resident director for the 2015-16 year had yet been identified. These factors resulted in CSA finally deciding that a final decision could not be made until the directorship of the program and resolution of the science-only restriction could be resolved.

Leadership transitions

Smith in Geneva: Smith appointed Geneviève Piron as the permanent

Resident Academic Director to lead our Smith in Geneva program, commencing in the 2014-15 academic year. Dr. Piron previously served as the associate director and had taught for Smith since 2005 as a French language instructor for the program. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva in Slavic Studies as well as an M.A. from the university in Translation and Interpretation. Her leadership has already proven the anticipated strengths of continuity in program development and relationship-building. She is working closely with the International Affairs office of the University of Geneva to improve our affiliation, and has also been instrumental in negotiations with The Graduate Institute and the new BA/MA program.

Smith in Florence: due to the lack of applications for the posted faculty

director position for 2015-16, CSA and Italian Studies agreed to recommend the transition to a permanent resident directorship for Florence, effective 2015-16. An international search was held, with three finalists interviewed on campus in the spring of 2015, but resulted in a failed search. Given the late date in the academic year, the decision was made to appoint an interim leadership team: Monica Ginanneschi, the associate director for over thirty years, was appointed Interim Resident Administrative Director, and Dr. Guido Reverdito, program faculty of Social Sciences, was appointed consultant for academic advising and curriculum development. The

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permanent resident directorship will be re-posted at an appropriate time in the 2015-16 year.

Smith in Hamburg: long-term planning between the Provost’s office and

German Studies regarding the directorship position in Hamburg revealed a serious shortage of viable candidates for this program. In order to retain the value of tenured faculty on campus for the German Studies major while supporting the critical curricular link with the Hamburg program for the majors, the decision was reached to phase in the transition to a permanent resident director effective 2017-18. Joel Westerdale will serve as faculty director in 2015-2016, Jocelyne Kolb in 2016-17, and the new directorship will commence in 2017. As with Geneva, a faculty liaison will also be appointed to provide advising and curricular continuity for students, as German majors take as much as sixty percent of courses toward their major while in Hamburg.

Committee on Study Abroad curricular decisions

Language policy exceptions: after over two years of campus deliberations

regarding Smith’s language policy pre-requisites for study abroad, the proposal to allow students to apply for programs if they meet the program’s own minimal language preparation was modified to allow for this policy relaxation only as an exception for programs with a clear science focus. The language policy now states the following:

Exceptions to the Language Requirements for Selected Science Programs: Exceptions to the Smith Study Abroad Language Proficiency Policy are made for the following programs:

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Students may attend without language prerequisites but must study Chinese during the entire time at HKUST.

Organization of Tropical Studies, Costa Rica. Students may attend without Spanish language prerequisites, but must study Spanish during the entire time at OTS.

SIT Madagascar: Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management. Students may attend with three semesters of French; students study French for Natural Sciences and Elementary Malagasy.

These exceptions are allowed with the goal of encouraging increased access to non-English speaking destinations for the study of STEM-related fields.

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New program approval: At the request of the Geosciences program, the Frontiers Abroad Earth Science program in New Zealand was approved for study abroad credit transfer. Smith already approves the Frontiers Abroad Geology of New Zealand program based in Christchurch, Auckland.

Year-long study in the UK: in conjunction with discussions arising through

the Global Strategies Working Group, CSA initiated discussion of whether the current restriction on year-long study in the UK was equitable in terms of student’s unique plans of study. Related to this concern is that there is not an official policy on whether students might submit a petition to request year-long program options. CSA is favorable to the creation of a formal petition option, pending further financial analysis of the impact of increased length of time studying in the UK.

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Study Abroad Destinations

Study Abroad Destinations by Region

Africa1%

Americas11%

Asia11%

Europe46%

Middle East2%

Oceania6%

UK&Ireland23%

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International Students & Scholars Office

2014-15 marked the first year of the International Students & Scholars Office (ISSO) being fully integrated within the Lewis Center structure. Over the summer months, a staff member of the Lewis Center became the second Designated School Official (DSO), learning F-1 visa regulations and helping Associate Dean Caitlin Szymkowicz advise our international students. Staff of the center assisted with programming and delivery of the International Student Pre-Orientation this year. As a result, we saw international students visit the Center more frequently, seeming to feel at ease with the space as a friendly, open place they could see as home base. For the academic year 2014-15, Smith welcomed a first-year international class of 96 international students from 37 countries. (This figure increases to 109 when including AMS and one incoming Ada Comstock Scholar, with 42 countries thus represented.) We have seen a large increase in the number of Chinese nationals enrolling at Smith, with this year’s count at 45 new students with Chinese citizenship. After China, our best-represented countries are Korea and Canada, with 7 and 4 students, respectively. In total, Smith matriculated 389 international students from 73 foreign countries. Of these students, 20 studied abroad, 11 for the full academic year and nine for one semester only. Many international students engaged in summer research with faculty on campus. A number of students participated in summer Curricular Practical Training (CPT) in off-campus jobs, which resulted in a credited special studies course for the Fall 2015 semester based on their summer work experience. Our office works with these students and faculty to give authorization to work off-campus and maintain their F-1 visa status. Many also took advantage of Smith funding to complete Critical Language programs, International Experience Grants, Praxis Internships, and Global Engagement Seminars during the summer months. We graduated 75 international students in May 2015 and an additional seven early graduates in January 2015; 48 of these students found (or continue to seek) jobs in the U.S. under Post-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), as allowed by their F-1 visa status. Our office guides students through the process of applying for OPT, since this authorization must come from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and can be complicated to navigate. Twelve students will attend graduate school in the U.S., and our office has helped to transfer their visa records to the new programs. The remaining students have elected to return home. There are also several students from prior graduating classes who elect to extend their OPT authorization for an additional 17-month period, based on their STEM majors, who we support in that application. Others apply for H-1B visas through their employers, and we help support them as a campus liaison. This year, we introduced more regular programming to teach students about OPT and CPT opportunities. OPT sessions were held twice during the fall semester, and then again three times in the spring. We also held our first CPT question and answer

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session, which was well attended. We hope to continue these more regular information sessions to allow students to learn about the process when they’re ready to start thinking about it. The Office also supports visiting scholars and faculty to the college, helping them to secure visas and ensure appropriate work status. While the number of scholars tends to be small, we invest the time to make sure each finds his/her way on campus, has necessary health insurance coverage, and has a sense of resources available on campus. We would love to see our scholars become even more integrated into the life and events of the Center as we move forward.

Events

In its first full year under the Lewis Global Studies Center, the International Students and Scholars Office saw a return of traditional events, as well as the addition of some new events.

International Student Pre-Orientation (ISP) – August: ISP has grown significantly in recent years, and it remained large this year. 115 students participated, including graduate, AMS, and transfer students. Students were introduced to a number of offices on campus during the week-long program, including presentations from Residential Life, the Jacobson Center, Health Services, Financial Aid, and Counseling Services. In addition, students were guided through necessary procedures for being in school abroad, such as opening a bank account, securing a Social Security number, and buying dormitory essentials at local stores. Our ISP staff of 15 students was invaluable in making the week a welcoming, positive time for our participants.

Through a collaboration with the International Advancement team, we were able to organize a welcome breakfast with President McCartney and key staff around campus. This event served to attract about 50 family members, far more than we anticipated. It was a good reminder that having a formal welcome for families was a respectful gesture to so many of our students who come from more hierarchical, formalized societies. We hope to repeat this type of event, and with the help of Kim Albright and Danielle Brown in the Development office, we have plans to extend the event into a day-long international parent orientation.

International Student (IS) Day – November: IS Day was once again held in

early November to avoid conflicts with Family Weekend. The event is traditionally a joint effort between the International Students & Scholars Office and the International Student Organization (ISO). Students worked with Dining Services staff throughout the weekend to cook recipes collected over the past several years, then held the event during lunchtime on Monday in the Campus Center. LGSC staff manned the ticket table at the event,

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allowing our student volunteers to serve food and talk with attendees. Students represented 20 places/countries to the campus in a fun, well-loved event. All told, we sold approximately 2,100 tickets via ISO, Residence Life, the office, and at-the-door sales. This year marked Ann Finley’s last year with IS Day and as Director of Catering, before retiring in June 2015. In future years, we hope to work with ISO to brainstorm ways to increase fundraising surrounding this event, in an attempt to put less strain on the discretionary funding ISSO uses to subsidize it each year.

Fall & Spring Break Trips – October/March: ISSO helps the ISO coordinate

day trips to Newport and New York each year for fall and spring breaks, respectively. This year’s trip to Newport was a great success, with bus tickets selling out in about 20 minutes. The New York trip was smaller, and as a result of ISO staff changes and a late funding request to OSE, was funded in part by the ISSO.

Winter Clothing Closets: ISSO hosted two clothing closets this year within

the Lewis Center. In past years, donations were available for students who asked, and clothing was stored in boxes from year to year. This year, we decided to make the donations more appealing by setting them up as a thrift shop within our conference room. Students could come by and take whatever they wanted for free, and the event had lots of success. After our two events, we donated leftover clothing to the Goodwill in Northampton. At the end of the schoolyear we collected new donations from graduating seniors and stored them in the office over the summer. Those new donations, along with any campus ones in the fall, will be used for next year’s clothing closet events.

Thanksgiving Meal: Residence Life coordinated a community Thanksgiving

dinner for any students staying on campus this year. Staff ordered pre-made turkey dinners through Big Y and delivered them to two houses on campus. Students were invited to sign up and dine together, since attendance had been low in past years. In addition, Jan Morris (Student Affairs) organized a Thanksgiving match program with volunteer faculty and staff families. Students were matched in pairs to local families for the Thanksgiving meal. It’s still a relatively small program, but it has grown every year. Responses from participants are very positive, and it may be something for the LGSC to support in the future.

Winter Recess – December/January: We continue to have an

overwhelming demand for students staying on-campus during Winter Recess. This year we had over 100 students stay on campus for the break. For the first time, Residence Life used Cutter/Ziskind as a central housing location. In addition, students could stay in their own houses, if they were open year-round.

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In an effort to improve morale on campus during this time period, ISSO planned a few low-key activities for students during the Winter Recess. Events ranged from things that already happen in the area, such as the Look Park lights festival, local religious services, and Northampton’s First Night. ISSO reduced the amount of its food stipends this year, so we compensated in part by providing dinner two nights during the two-week period. Events were well-received and seemed to encourage more exploration and social interaction during a very quiet time on campus.

Rhythm Nations – March: Each year, Rhythm Nations is one of ISO’s

signature events, and it draws music, dance and performance pieces from all over campus. The performances included several individual and small group performances, a fashion show with explanations of each style of dress’ cultural significance, and participation from many cultural organizations on campus, including SC Masti, EKTA, SACSA, and KASS. This year groups from the Five Colleges helped to round out the set list and showcase the diversity of the international community in the Valley, too.

This year, a controversy arose on campus related to the traditional Rhythm Nations flag parade that kicks off the event. A student identifying herself as Tibetan marched with her flag, and it created a debate within the international community as to whether flags from places not universally recognized as countries should be allowed in such a performance. In the end, it was determined that ISO (and ISSO by extension) must take more care in the future to anticipate such controversial situations, and must use more precise language when referring to countries versus regions or places. In the aftermath of these conversations, ISSO paired with Associate Dean of the College Jennifer Walters and Professor Greg White to lead a discussion entitled “How do we express where we’re from?: A conversation to build our international community.” The conversation allowed a needed space for venting and solidarity, and it was well-received by the 50 or so students who attended. We hope to find more ways to bring these sorts of discussions to campus, and to allow students with unpopular or minority opinions to express their beliefs without suffering negative repercussions for those views.

Chinese Language Partners: This year, the ISSO partnered with the

Department of East Asian Language and Literature in order to help students in Chinese 110 find conversation partners for practice. We paired about 50 students taking beginner’s Mandarin with first-year Chinese students to practice together on a weekly basis. We worked in partnership with Yalin Chen in the Chinese department and hosted two additional events within the Center: a simple Meet-and-Greet for introductions and a pizza social in the office.

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International Undergraduate Exchanges Programs: This office

coordinates the exchange programs with various overseas universities and accepts undergraduate international students to study at Smith for one academic year. Exchanges are processed through our office with the collaboration of the Office for International Study. Exchange students during 2014-15 were as follows:

o Killam Foundation-Ottawa, Canada- One student, spring 2015 o Ewha University- Seoul, Korea – One student, full academic year o Doshisha Women’s College- Kyoto, Japan -- One student, full academic

year.

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International Student Citizenship

AFRICA10%

AMERICAS7%

ASIA66%

EUROPE8%

UK & IRELAND (Continental)

2% MIDDLE EAST7%

OCEANA0%

International Students by Region

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American Studies Diploma Program

The Diploma Program in American Studies is a one-year, graduate-level program in American Studies for international students. Twelve students graduated from the Diploma Program in 2014-15, three from Germany; two from France and Switzerland; and one from Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and Turkey. Each student completed an intensive year of coursework in American Studies and engaged in a year-long thesis project that was grounded in original research. As a capstone for their academic experience at Smith, the Diploma scholars presented the results of their research at Smith’s annual Celebrating Collaborations event. The 2014-15 Diploma scholars, and their research projects, were as follows:

Gloria Alberti, Italy: African-American migration and dreams of the city in the 20th century.

Serra Aydin, Turkey: family stigmatization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and resulting delays in treatment.

Loren da Costa, France: choreographed and performed an original jazz dance composition.

Stella Frei, Germany: psychological rehabilitation efforts in Europe after World War II.

Katharina Frisch, Germany: comparative study of elementary education in the United States and Germany.

Vincent Guénon, France: history of colonial wars involving Native peoples in North America, in the genre of graphic literature.

Caroline Jauch, Switzerland: composed a play on racial attitudes, based on readings of the novels of William Faulkner.

Lise Koning, The Netherlands: historical study of the “Black Pete” tradition in The Netherlands, in relation to blackface practices fashioned in the 19th-century United States.

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Paloma Lukumbi, Switzerland: critical assessment of the translation of Spoken Word poetry into written forms.

Tatiana Maksimova, Russia: blog recording personal observations and reflections on life in the United States, rooted in Russian traditions of the literary treatment of travel in the United States.

María Ruiz Plata, Spain: language and personal identity in contemporary women’s migrant fiction in the United States.

Natascha Schiel, Germany: comparative study of law as an instrument of gender equality in the United States and Germany.

In January of 2015, Lane Hall-Witt, director of the AMS Diploma program, submitted the program’s Decennial Review report to the Smith College Committee on Academic Priorities (CAP). This report documented a series of conversations and meetings over an 18-month period commencing in the fall of 2013. The recommendations set forth in the report represent a major shift in two significant areas related to the Diploma program: on one hand, the field of American Studies is shifting toward a more global focus, and on the other, our university partners abroad are seeking a wider range of academic offerings than just American Studies. The reality has been that we have been recruiting AMS Diploma students with the promise that their course work can be outside of the traditional AMS field. As noted in Hall-Witt’s decennial review report:

“In fact, … a more fundamental challenge lies behind our recruiting problem: a broad shift of student interest away from the study of the United States, toward the study of other nations and regions, particularly in their “trans-national” or “global” aspects. Several forms of evidence point toward this conclusion: Doshisha University has transformed its American Studies institute into a Global Studies institute and, for the past three years, has failed to send a student into the Diploma Program to pursue American Studies at Smith; several times Hamburg University, with its very strong tradition in American Studies, has requested, and been granted, an exception to the “American Studies” requirement for sending its students into the Diploma Program; several Diploma students in recent years have, in the course of their research, migrated from U.S. to transnational and non-U.S. concentrations in their scholarly work; and Geneva has explicitly, and successfully, challenged the requirement that its exchange students enter Smith through a program in “American Studies.” It is worth noting that this trend, which we have observed in the life of the Diploma Program in American Studies, parallels broader patterns that seen at Smith and throughout the U.S. academy: enrollments in “American Studies” have dropped dramatically as students in the humanities and social sciences seek out new ways to gain insight into the workings of contemporary society and culture in a world that is now not only “post-Cold War,” but also “post-unipolar” (i.e., moving beyond the hegemonic sway of “the Washington Consensus”).”

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We continued our conversations regarding the AMS Diploma program through a parallel set of conversations organized as the Global Strategies Working Group, chaired by Donna Lisker, dean of the college. We anticipate a decision regarding changes to the Diploma program during the 2015-2016 academic year.

International Experience Opportunities

International Experience Grants (IEGs)

The Office for International Study provides funding for students to engage in extra-curricular and for-credit experiences during the January and summer breaks. A subcommittee of the Committee on Study Abroad reviews applications and scores them according to criteria of academic merit, connection to personal and professional goals, prior study abroad experience, and financial need. Generally only high-ranking proposals are accepted. These competitive IEG awards are funded through a number of special endowed funds: the Calkins, Weiden, Wilder, Buchanan Spurgin, Yaesshna Pillay Grant of 2013, and the Smith College Club of Great Britain, as well as an operating fund of the Lewis Center. Appendix A lists the available balances in these funds for 2014-15, total requests and awards, and the amount awarded as percentages of both availability and demand. Of $114,250 available to fund these January and summer opportunities, the Lewis Center received over 133 applications with requests totaling over $375,000. Just over half of all proposals (54%) were funded for a total of $102,852, or 90% of available funds. Most successful applicants only received partial funding and are expected to find additional resources in order to cover their project or course expenses. As Smith seeks to encourage global experiences for all students, and based on trends in higher education toward shorter-term programs, we expect to see growing demand for summer and short-term funding.

Blumberg Traveling Fellowships

The Janet Mitchell Blumberg Traveling Awards were established by Professor Phillip I. Blumberg and his children in 1976 in honor of his late wife, Janet Mitchell Blumberg '39, who spent her junior year with the Smith program in Florence, Italy. The Blumberg Award allows students to augment their study abroad experiences by undertaking faculty-mentored research projects that encourage intellectual growth and cultural appreciation. The awards shall be made without regard to financial

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need. Any Smith student enrolled in a Smith Program Abroad for a semester or a full academic year is eligible to apply. Awardees and their projects for 2014-15

Eilis Goshow-Snook, Smith in Hamburg, “A Literary Triumph over Fire” Sydney Ramirez, Smith in Hamburg, “Almanya & Die Türkei: Venues for

Multiculturalism In Germany” Cynthia Gomez, Smith in Florence, “The Areebambini: Educational Spaces for

Children” Isabella Grezzi, Smith in Florence, “Living with Celiac in Italy”

Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars Fund

The Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars Fund (Wien Global Scholars) is a merit-based award to encourage Smith students who are U.S. citizens to study abroad for a full year in non-English speaking countries in combination with an internship or similar experience either before or after the study abroad period. Exceptions are made for science or engineering majors intending to study abroad for one semester in combination with an accompanying internship experience. Eight students applied for the Wien Global Scholarship for 2014-15. Of these, two students were awarded full-year merit scholarships of $10,000 each with up to $5,000 toward a summer internship and expenses:

Idia Irele ’16 studied in Madrid, Spain with the Tufts-Skidmore program. She interned during the summer of 2015 with the Fulbright Commission of Spain in Madrid. A profile of Idia appeared in the Fall ’14 Smith Alumnae quarterly.

Isabelle Galdone ’16 studied with the Smith in Paris program in France and interned with the French Heritage Fund during the summer of 2015.

The recipient for the 2015-16 year is Nicole Peer ’17, a government major, currently studying in Geneva, Switzerland for the academic year. Since the creation of the Wien Global Scholars Fund in 2012, the Lewis Center has awarded nine grants to outstanding Smith students. Previous recipients are:

2011-12 Elizabeth Williams '13, Study of Women and Gender; full year in Córdoba, Spain Amelia Murphy '13, Psychology and Italian Studies; full year in Florence, Italy

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2012-13 Alexandra (Pepper) Neff ‘14, Government and French Studies, full year in Paris, France Laura Leung '14, Biochemistry and Economics; spring 2013 in Shanghai, China 2013-14 Kristen DeLancey ’15, American Studies, full year in Paris, France Yolana Pollack ’15, Economics, full year in Geneva, Switzerland

Visiting Scholars in Residence

Maria Francesca Angioni University of Sassari Geoffrey Kitula King'ei Kenyatta University Lola Lafon France, author of We are the Birds of the Coming Storm Mustapha Machrafi University Mohammed V Souissi-Rabat Asmaa Salih Baghdad University Carmen Blanco Valdes University of Córdoba Masako Yasuki Japanese Grant for Young Emerging Artists Yoshikazu Yamagishi Ryukoku University

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Events and Initiatives

Featured Events

January 2015 Conference

Forced Displacement and the Challenges of Glocal (global/local) Citizenship Friday, January 23, 2015

Humanities Lab: Global Lecture Series Co-sponsored with the Center for Community Collaboration

Forced Displacement and Refugees: New Forms in the Global World, New Challenges, New Responses Greg White (Professor of Government) Thursday, February 12, 2015 Workshop: “Being a student and immigrant at Smith College: Adapting to administrative, cultural, religious and weather differences” Facilitation led by Giovanna Bellesia (Professor of Italian Language and Literature) and Caitlin Szymkowicz (Associate Dean for International Students and Scholars) Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Panel: “Immigration Policies and Local Answers to a Global Issue, Resettlement Experiences and Challenges of Displaced People” Susannah Crolius (Coordinator of Outreach and Resource Development – Western Massachusetts Refugee and Immigrant Consortium) and Jeff Napolitano (Executive Officer at American Friends Service Committee of Western Mass) Monday, March 9, 2015 Migration, Forced Migration and Displacement in South Africa Katherine Newman (Professor of Sociology, Provost of UMass- Amherst) Organized in collaboration with the department of Anthropology Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Forced Displacement, Refugees and Development: Global Overview, Policies and Local Answers to a Global Issue David Brotherton (Chairman and Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice), organized in collaboration with the department of Anthropology Friday, April 10, 2015

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Forced Displacement, Refugees and Development: Policies and Local Answers to a Global Issue – The Case of the Dominican Republic David Brotherton (Chairman and Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Organized in Collaboration with the department of Anthropology Friday, April 10, 2015

Signature Lewis Center Events

Global Salons

Global Salon with Pankaj Rishi Kumar Pankaj Rishi Kumar, Independent Filmmaker Host: Nalini Bhushan (Philosophy) Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Global Salon with Lola Lafon Lola Lafon, author of recently translated We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm Host: Janie Vanpee (French, Comparative Literature) Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Global Salon with Manoj Mitta Manoj Mitta, journalist and author of The Fiction of Fact Finding: Modi and Godhra Host: Pinky Hota (Anthropology) Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Global Salon with Nameera Ahmed Nameera Ahmed, Pakistani Filmmaker Host: EKTA (South Asian Student Association) Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Teaching, Culture, and Respect: Comparing the Profession of Teaching across Three Countries Rosetta Cohen (Education and Child Study) Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Futebol Nation? Soccer and Society in Contemporary Brazil David Goldblatt, author of Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil through Soccer, Host: Andrew Zimbalist (Economics) Thursday, November 13, 2014

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Colonization, Occupation, and Race Alex Lubin, University of Mexico Host: Nadya Sbaiti (History) Monday, December 1, 2014 A Photographer’s Perspective on Putin’s Russia and Ukraine Sasha Rudensky, Wesleyan University Host: Yola Monakhov Stockton, Harnish Visiting Artist Tuesday, December 2, 2014 Mare Nostrum: Burning the Mediterranean in the Global Millennium Alessandra DiMaio, Visiting Associate Professor of Italian Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Ecocritical Euclides, or Sustainability Avant la Lettre Aarti Madan, Professor of Spanish and International Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tuesday, March 3, 2015 The Duke University Haiti Lab: Its Structure, Mission, and Achievements Jacques Pierre, Visiting Lecturer in French, Haitian Creole and Culture in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University and Core Affiliated Faculty in the Haiti Lab Monday, March 9, 2015 Disappearing Christianity in the Middle East: Analyzing the Scholarly and Policy Response Elizabeth Prodromou, Visiting Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and Affiliate Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Women and (Political) Leadership in Kenya Hon. Anne Waiguru, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Devolution and Planning in Kenya Thursday, March 12, 2015 A Reading and Conversation about 18th Century Swahili Poet Mwana Kupoma Kitula King’ei, Professor of Kiswahili and African Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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Immigration, Displacement and Mobility of Sub-Saharans in Melilla and Ceuta Enclaves (in French) Mustapha Machrafi (Professor and Dean at the University Mohammed V-Rabat and Fulbright Scholar at Smith College) Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Language Revitalization: Working with the Last Mojave Speakers Natalie Diaz Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Global Books

Guéhenno’s Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 David Ball (French, emeritus) Thursday, September 25, 2014 The Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art Malcolm McNee, (Spanish and Portuguese) and interlocutor Pam Petro, writer and artist Friday, November 14, 2014 Kremlin Propaganda: Can Putin Control It? Anna Arutunyan, journalist and author Host: Vera Shevzov (Religion) Thursday, November 20, 2014 Women and Islam; Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique Ibtissam Bouachrine (Spanish and Portuguese, Middle East Studies) and interlocutor Donna Divine (Government, Middle East Studies, emeritus) Thursday, December 4, 2014 Elusive Unity: Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatan, Mexico Fernando Armstrong Fumero (Anthropology) and interlocutor Pinky Hota (Anthropology) Thursday, February 26, 2015 A Conversation with Translators Giovanna Bellesia and Victoria Offredi Poletto Professors of Italian Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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Queen of Flowers and Pearls: A Novel With translators: Giovanna Bellesia (Professor of Italian), and Victoria Offredi Poletto (Senior Lecturer Emerita in Italian) Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics Author Elizabeth Armstrong (Associate Professor in the Study of Women and Gender), and interlocutor Payal Banerjee (Assistant Professor of Sociology) Thursday, April 9, 2015

What’s Happening Around the World (WHAW)

Epidemics in the Global Era: The Case of Ebola Kim Dionne (Government), Rob Dorit (Biological Science), Dr. Les Jaffee (Health Services), Jennifer Walters (Religious and Spiritual Life, Center for Community Collaboration) Monday, September 15, 2014 Facts Not Fear: Reacting to Ebola Rob Dorit and students of his seminar, Bio 321: Emerging Infectious Disease Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Challenges to French Identity: I am Charlie? I am Ahmed? I am Jewish? Mlada Bukovansky (Government), Lois Dubin (Religion and Jewish Studies), Ibtissam Bouachrine (Middle East Studies), Mehammed Mack (French Studies), Oriane Morriet (French Studies) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 The Upcoming Israeli Elections and the Promise of Peace? Justin Cammy (Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature, specializing in modern Jewish literature and culture), and Donna Robinson Devine (Professor Emerita of Government and Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies) Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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Leadership in Diplomacy Series

The United Nations – What’s at Stake and Why It Matters (Rally Day 2015) A Conversation with Gillian Martin Sorensen ’68 (Smith College Rally Day Medalist 2015, Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation; formerly United Nations Assistant, Secretary-General for External Relations) Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Understanding Khartoum, Understanding Sudan: Consequences of Impunity Eric Reeves, Professor of English Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Leadership and Governance in Africa: Women and the Devolution Process in Kenya Hon. Anne Waiguru, Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Devolution and Planning in Kenya Co-sponsored by the Center for Community Collaboration, the Office of the Provost, and the Lewis Global Studies Center Thursday, March 12, 2015 International Relations in Theory and Practice: Observations from a Diplomatic Career in Eurasia Robin S. Brooks ’95 (Chief of Staff in the State Department’s Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) Thursday, March 26, 2015

Special Events

American Studies Diploma Program Welcome Reception Friday, September 12, 2014 Otelia Cromwell Day 25th Anniversary – Dedication to a Diverse Community: From Crisis to Celebration Farah Pandith ‘90 Thursday, November 6, 2014 Travel Writing Workshop With Jaclyn Mishal, co-founder of Pink Pangea Friday, February 27, 2015 Public Speaking for International Students – General Interest Meeting Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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Teach-in on the Garissa University College (Kenya) Attacks Thursday, April 9, 2015 Open Seminar: Seminar in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture: Punchline: The Jewish Comic Tradition (JUD362) Sayed Kashua Co-sponsored by Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Smith College Lecture Committee, the Sams Fund of the Kahn Institute, and the Lewis Global Studies Center, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 “How Do We Express Where We’re From?”: A Conversation to Build Our International Community Thursday, April 16, 2015

Annual Student Support Programming

International Student Preorientation August 20-28, 2014 Sophomore Reboot Open house Friday, September 5, 2014 Study Abroad Welcome Back Ice Cream Social Friday, September 5, 2014 Study Abroad Fair Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Winter Clothes Closet for International Students Friday, October 3, 2014, and Friday, December 5, 2014

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Blumberg Presentations Saikun Shi ‘15, Aneesha Wagh ‘15, and Isabelle Ross ‘15 Friday, November 14, 2014 Global Encounters Photo Contest and Exhibit Digital Display (Facebook) October 15 – 30, 2014 Exhibit (Wright Hall Lobby) November 10 – 21, 2014 Reception Friday, November 21, 2014 International Student Food Festival Day (IS Day) Monday, November 3, 2014 Study Abroad Welcome Back Friday, January 30, 2015 Summer Abroad Fair Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Rhythm Nations Saturday, February 28, 2015 Global Narratives Pre-Departure Workshop Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Global Engagement Seminar Health, Safety and Logistics Pre-Departure Thursday, April 16, 2015 Study Abroad Pre-Departure: Approved Programs Monday, April 20, 2015 Study Abroad Pre-Departure: Smith Programs Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Information Sessions Bridge-ing Abroad Thursday, September 16, 2014 Art, Architecture, and Structural Design Pierre Engel, School of Architecture of Paris Val de Seine Host: Rob Dorit (Biological Science) Monday, September 15, 2014

School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest Wolfgang Reinicke, founding Dean Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Study Abroad for Engineering Majors Thursday, October 2, 2014

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OPT (Optional Practical Training) for International J-Grads & Seniors Thursday, October 9, 2014 Smith Program Abroad in Florence Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Study Abroad for Environmental Science and Policy Majors Thursday, October 16, 2014 Smith Program Abroad in Hamburg Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Presentation of the Concentration in Translation Studies Thursday, October 23, 2014 Study Abroad for Economics Majors Monday, October 27, 2014 Smith in Paris Study Abroad Thursday, October 30, 2014 Bridge-ing Abroad Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Smith in Geneva Study Abroad Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Study Abroad for the Class of 2017 Thursday, November 13, 2014 Global Engagement Seminar (GES) Tuesday, November 18, 2014 OPT (Optional Practical Training) for International J-Grads & Seniors Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Pre-departure Orientation November 24, 2014 Davis Projects for Peace Friday, December 5, 2014 CPT (Curricular Practical Training) for International Students Tuesday, December 2, 2014 Ewha Women’s University Friday, January 30, 2015 OPT (Optional Practical Training) Workshop for International Seniors Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Study in Russia this Summer Friday, April 10, 2015

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Office and Program Staffing: 2014-2015

Program Staff Lewis Center Staff Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study and Director Janie Vanpée, Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies, Translation

Studies Director, and Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’69 Faculty Director Lisa Morde, Program Coordinator Office for International Study Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study Lisa Johnson, Assistant Dean for International Study Sara Kortesluoma, Administrative Sue Pouliot, Budget Coordinator Office for International Students and Scholars Caitlin Szymkowicz, Associate Dean for International Students & Scholars Sara Kortesluoma, Administrative Coordinator American Studies Diploma Program Lane Hall-Witt, Director An organizational chart of the Center is located in Appendix B.

Advisory Committees

Faculty Advisory Committee 2014-2015

Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study, Director

Janie Vanpée, Professor of French Studies, Faculty Director (2017)

Payal Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Sociology (2017)

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Elizabeth Bigwood, Assistant Director for Smith Travel, Alumnae Association (ex officio)

Margaret Bruzelius, Associate Dean of the College (ex officio)

Mlada Bukovansky, Associate Professor of Government (2017) (on sabbatical fall 2014)

Justin Cammy, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature (2017)

Chris Golé, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (2016) (on leave JYA Paris 2014-15)

Simon Halliday, Assistant Professor of Economics (2017)

Mary Harrington, Professor of Psychology (2017)

Donna Lisker, Dean of the College (ex officio)

Caitlin Szymkowicz, Associate Dean for International Students and Scholars (ex officio)

Sujane Wu, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures (2015) (on sabbatical 2014-2015)

Student Advisory Committee 2014-2015

Mengqi Chen ‘17

Emily Kowalik '18

Lisa Lho ‘15

Zoe Meers ‘17

Yamini Mookherjee ‘15

Qingyi Xie ‘18

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Appendices

Appendix A: International Experience Grant Allocations

Fund Balance Description Total Requested #

Applicants

Proposals

Accepted

Accept

rate

J-term

Awards Summer

Awards Total

Amount

awarded as %

of all requests

Amount

awarded as %

of available

funds

Calkins 14,205$

Independent study or research projects

abroad preferably for studying art or

architecture. 19,014$ 6 4 67% 1,600$ 7,800$ 9,400$ 49% 66%

SCCGB 12,841$ Smith College Club of Great Britain 26,025$ 8 7 88% 2,000$ 8,450$ 10,450$ 40% 81%

Buchanan Spurgin 5,000$ South or Southeast Asia 16,022$ 6 1 17% -$ 1,400$ 1,400$ 9% 28%

Pillay 10,000$ Health-related internship in Singapore 85,000$ 17 2 12% -$ 10,000$ 10,000$ 12% 100%

Weiden 6,498$

Internships or similar programs

preferably in arts and humanities

projects in Western Europe, especially 11,285$ 4 4 100% 2,000$ 2,798$ 4,798$ 43% 74%

Wilder 28,706$

Study, service and practical experience

and projects abroad 133,866$ 51 21 41% -$ 28,550$ 28,550$ 21% 99%

General GSC funds 37,000$

Lewis Center operatings funds

dedicated to IEG funding 84,131$ 41 33 80% 33,529$ 4,725$ 38,254$ 45% 103%

Total 114,250$ 375,343$ 133 72 54% 39,129$ 63,723$ 102,852$ 27% 90%

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Appendix B: Organizational Structure 2014-15

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Lewis Global Studies Center

Contact us or visit our website at smith.edu/world

Lewis Global Studies Center Wright Hall 127

Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Phone: (413) 585-7598 Fax: (413) 585-4982

E-mail: global@smith.edu

Office Hours Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

When classes are in session.

Walk-in Advising

International Study (Study Abroad) Tuesday: 2:00- 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday: 2:00- 4:00 p.m. Thursday: 2:00- 4:00 p.m.

International Students

Tuesday: 3:00- 4:00 p.m. Wednesday: 2:00- 4:00 p.m. Thursday: 2:00- 4:00 p.m.

American Studies Diploma Program

Monday: 3:00- 5:00 p.m.